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Sony Europe’s Image Sensing Solutions division has announced a unified programming interface and software development kit for its complete range of GigE and Firewire (IEEE1394b) camera modules. The upgraded driver will enable customers to switch from Firewire to GigE camera modules, and use their existing software and function libraries.
The driver builds on Sony’s ZCL camera driver – currently used in its Firewire devices – to deliver advanced bus management features, such as broadcast delivery and bus-reset detection for FireWire-based systems or Chunk Data handling for GigE Vision systems.
It also integrates several new functionalities, including support for the Windows 64bit operating systems.
“Our customers are developing a wide range of applications and this means they’ll need to implement both Firewire and GigE modules according to the needs of the project,” said Alexis Teissié, Product Specialist at Sony ISS.
“This switching between the standards is becoming more common and we’ve worked closely with our customers to create a driver and SDK pakage that makes it easy to adopt the best standard for a given application; without starting from scratch on the software.”
The unified driver and SDK will be available in December. Sony has also announced that its 2012 upgrade to the driver will include support for GigE Vision 2.0, and will be backwards compatible.
